#insects Timeline

144d

Insects are disappearing from the last places we thought were safe https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250922074956.htm

#environment #insects

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Five second video of a parasitic cuckoo wasp at one of my insect hotels. I love how their antennae are always in motion. And their huge eyes. And their metallic color. But huge pain to ID. #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #CuckooWasp #chrysididae #insects #bees #wasps

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273d

en trente ans entre 60 et 80 % des insectes et oiseaux des champs auraient disparu

Ulrike Bolenz, les créatures ailées

tags : extinction de masse des anges, #insects #birds #ecology #photography

femme libellule nue en voie d’effacement

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194d

Leafhopper

#Insects #Nature #Photography

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261d

"Flying to the Light" is a recent work. I'm trying to keep it as a philosophy...

ART - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/flying-to-the-light-peggy-collins.html

#butterfly #butterflies #insects #sun #colorful #art #arte #buyintoart #kunst #wallartforsale #wallart #artprints #artforsale #fineart #decor #gifts #giftideas #interiordesign #homedecor #contemporaryart #modernart #creativetoots #artbooster #fediverse #fedigiftshop #mastodonart #mastoart

Colorful artwork of butterflies flying towards the sun, by artist Peggy Collins.

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247d

A violet carpenter bee (Xylocopa violacea), spotted in #Goettingen, Germany.

#photography #nature #wildlife #insects #bees #CarpenterBees #Göttingen #Fujifilm #FujifilmXT2 #Fujinon #XF90mm

(photos: @kernpanik | license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Photo of a large black bee covered in in yellow pollen, flying close to the opening of a violet bell-shaped flower.

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Photo of a large black bee covered in in yellow pollen, sitting on the edge of a violet bell-shaped flower.

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Photo of a large black bee covered in in yellow pollen, sitting inside a violet bell-shaped flower.

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353d

It feels like it's time for a new #introduction

I'm Daniel! He / him.

I'm a husband and Master #Naturalist from Louisiana and living in northeast #Oregon.

I post about #birds, #birding, #insects, #NativePlants, #iNaturalist, and everything else that I find in our travels around this beautiful Earth of ours.

I am a practitioner of #Soto #Zen #Buddhism, a #photographer, web developer, wood carver, and burgeoning gardener.

Website: https://daniel.observer

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215d

Yarrow and fly

#bloomscrolling #wildflowers #flowers #macro #insects #photography

Photograph of a brown domestic fly on a cluster of white flowers of yarrow (Achillea millefolium). Each flower has five round and white petals and a yellowish centre. The use of a macro lens and the incessant wind create a blurry and dreamy effect. Behind the flowers the background is green.

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207d

I never worked up this 2016 photo from the Peruvian Amazon because I was running into trouble identifying the wasp, in spite of its distinct markings.

But taxonomic resources are more accessible a decade on, and I'm happy to announce that she's the rarely photographed Polistes torresae.

#WaspLove #Polistes #Insects #Wasps

Wide angle macro photograph in a tropical forest, in the foreground, suspeneded from a palm spine, is a dark brown paper wasp nest and a stately black wasp with yellow thoracic markings and white stripes on the abdomen.

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202d

"You will believe a lobster can fly!"

A Hummingbird Moth supping on Butterfly Bush flowers at Mass Audubon's Stony Brook sanctuary.

#photography #insects #wildlife #nature #norfolk #massachusetts #wildmassachusetts #massachusettswildlife

A photograph of a Hummingbird Moth, a variety of sphinx moth that looks a bit like a miniature lobster and feeds much like a hummingbird, feeding on nectar from Butterfly Bush flowers.

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Macro surprise

#FotoVorschlag 'Verrückte Natur' #monochrome #blackandwhite #macro #macrophotography #insects #grasshopper #photography

Macro photograph in black and white of the face of a grasshopper, looking a little surprise to have its picture taken. The insect seems to have crooked eyes with long antennas between them, and an open "mouth" with mandibles on each side. What looks like a mouth is in fact the junction between two of its face parts, the real mouth being below the mandibles. The rest of its body and six legs are blurred behind.

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Hoverfly and chamomile

#silentsunday #macro #macrophotography #photography #bloomscrolling #flowers #gardening #hoverfly #insects

Macro photograph of a hoverfly on the yellow centre of a white chamomile flower. The was has a striped orange and black body, a yellow and black thorax, two bid red "eyes" on each side of its head with a blue metallic dot between them, and two open iridescent wings.

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Hey, Fedi. Help me help a friend. (Not financial!)

I have a friend who is all about cool bug facts. They're going through an intense patch in their life, so I would like to send them some bug facts to cheer them up. But this is really their thing, so basic search engine results aren't going to new to them.

If there's a cool bug fact that you genuinely love, could you tell me? I'll save them to share with my friend over time. 1/3

#Bugs #CoolBugFacts #Insects

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